Lamplighting device.



A. ,L. SCH NEIDER.

LAMPLIGHTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1, 1912.

1,063,936. Patented June 3, 1913.

INVENTOR ATTOR N IV.

ALBERT L. SCHNEIDER, OF BRAD-DOCK, PENNSYLVANIA.

QAHPHGHTIHG BEV 1032.

Specification of Letters i'atept.

Patented June 3, 1913.

A iplicat on and a 1, 1913. sem up. 71am.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the-United States of America, residing at Braddock, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamplighting Devices, of which the fol lowing is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to lamp lighters, and the primary object of my invention is to provide a lighting device, that can be advantageously used in connection with miners lamp for igniting the wick thereof, without resorting to the use of matches or the removal of the chimney or other parts of a lamp.

Another object of this invention is to furnish a miners lamp with an auxiliary lighting wick that has a snutfer which is removed from the auxiliary wick simultaneously with an ad'ustment of the main wick of the lamp.

ther object of this invention is to furnish a. wick lamp with a spark producing device that can be safely used for lighting the wick of the lamp.

A still further object of the invention is to accomplish the above results by a device that is simple in construction, free from injury for ordinary use and highly eflicient for the purposes for which it is intended.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention resides in a novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed.

Reference will wherein Figure l is a horizontal sectiozml view of a. lamp provided with the lighting device. Fig. 2 is a vertical. sectional view of a portion of the lamp, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of the lighting device.

In the drawing there is illustrated a portion of an ordinary miners lamp comprising an oil reservoir 1 having a closed neck 2 that; has the outer wall thereof screw threaded, as at3. Screwed upon the neck 2 is an interiorly screw threaded chimney holder 4; provided with an adjustable supporting ring 5 for the lower end of a chimmy 6.

Centrally of the neck 2 is a wick tube 7 containing the upper end of a wick 8 that now be had to the drawing,

extends into the illunnnati-ng oil contained within the reservoir or receptacle 1. Engagingthe upper end of the wick 8 is an elevating or adjusting rod 9 that 7 through aguide 10 arranged within the reservoir l carried-by the bottom thereof, said d xtend ng from the bottom of the res: ervioir and having a head or handle 11 whereby said rod can be adjusted to raise or lower the wick 8 soldered or otherwise connected to he upper end of the guide .10 and extending through an opening provided therefor in the neck 2 is an auxiliary Wick tube 12 containing an auxiliary wick 13. The Wick tube 12 is arranged in parallelism with the wick tube 7 and fitting over the upper open end of the tube 12 is a snufiing cap 14 that is soldered or otherwise connected to the upper end of the adjusting rod 9, so that said snuifing cap will be elevated simultaneously with an elevation of the main wick 8. The lower end of the auxiliary wick tube 12 closed and this tube is adapted to contain a small quantity of gasolene that is absorbed by the auxiliary wickl3 to permit of said wick being easily ignited.

Riveted or otherwise mounted upon the top of the neck 2, adjacent to the upper end of the auxiliary tube 12, is a bearing 15 for a longitudinal shaft 10, said shaft extending through an opening provided therefor in the chimney holder 4 and havin the outer end thereo provided with a hen or hand-wheel 17 that permits of said shaft being revolved. The inner end of the shaft 16 is reduced to provide a screw threaded shank 18 and mounted upon said shank is a toothed or roughenedstrike-wheel 19 that engages a spark producing material 20 preferably consisting of cerium or the alloys of cerium. Said member 20 is carried by a bracket 21 forming part of the bearing 15. The member 20 is arranged so that as it is struck by the roughened periphery of the strike-wheel 19 the sparks from the member will be projectcd in the direction of the auxiliary wick 13 and ignite said wick, when the snufiing cap 14 is elevated. With the upper end of the auxiliary wick 13 ignited, the upper end of the main wick 8 is lighted from said auxiliary wick and continues to burn during the use of the lamp. The flame of the auxiliary wick .13 can be extinguished independent of the flame of the main Wick 8,

as the. auxiliary gasolene wick 'is simply used as a medium for lighting the main wick of the lam i It is ought that the operation and utility the lighting device will apparent without further descri tion, and while in the drawingthere is il ustrated a preferred embodi'ment of the invention, it is to be underscopeof the appended claims. 7

stoodthat the structural elements are sus- 'eeptible to such changes as fall within the wick arranged within said tube, a snufiing cap carried by said rod and adapted to fit over said tube, a revoluble roughened wheel arranged in proximity to said auxiliary wick, a spark roducing material engaged "by said wheel or producingsparks at the upper-end of said "auxiliar wick, and means including a revoluble sha tvfor imparting a I rotary movement to said wheel.

2. In a lamp lighting device, the combinm tion with a lamp having. an oil reservoir, a

' 'phimnely holder detachably'su'pported thereby, an a main wick extendin into said oil reservoir, of an auxiliary wic located ad? jacent to said main wick, a bearing carried by the top of said reservoir, a shaft journaled in said bearing and extendin out of said chimney holder, a roughene wheel mounted'upon said shaft, a spark producing material supported by said bearing and engaged by sald wheel for producing sparks at the upper end of said auxiliary wick, and means for simultaneously adjusting said main wick and snufiing said auxiliary wick.

3. In a lamp lighting device, the combination with a lamp having an oil reservoir, a

chimney holder detachably connected thereto, a main wick extending into said'oil reser- V011, and a rod in connection with said main WlCk for ad usting sald wick, of an auxil ary wick located adjacent to said main wick, a

snufling cap carried by said rod and adapted to extend over said auxiliary wick, a revo luble wheel supported adjacentto. said auxiliary wick, a spark roducing material engaged by said-wheel or producing sparks at the upper end of said auxiliary wick, and means extending out of said chimney holder to facilitate revolving said-wheel.

- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT L. SCHNEIDER. \Vitnesses;

F. -W. Bonn, Max H. Snomvrrz. 

